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Polish legislative election, 1952 was the first election to the Sejm (parliament) of People's Republic of Poland (and second in the communist Poland). They took place on 26 October. The official rules for the elections were outlined in the new Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland and lesser acts.
The elections, as all the others in under the communist regimes in Poland, were not free and falsified, again a common occurrence of that time. Along with the Polish legislative election, 1947 they are considered the least free of the elections in Poland, an occurrence common during the era of Stalinization when communist government tried to tighten its control of the society as much as possible. Opposition was persecuted, up to arrests and torture; and not allowed to run in the elections. Candidates were vetted by communist party organization, Front Jedności Narodowej, and number of candidates permitted to run in the elections were equal to the number of seats in the parliament.[1]
The official results for frequency were 99,8%%. Communist party's candidates were successful.
The Sejm elected in 1951 was supposed to be replaced in elections of 1956, but due to political shifts in Poland, the new elections took place in early 1957 in a more liberal atmosphere (although still not free).[1]
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- Jerzy Drygalski, Jacek Kwasniewski, No-Choice Elections, Soviet Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Apr., 1990), pp. 295-315, JSTOR
- George Sakwa, Martin Crouch, Sejm Elections in Communist Poland: An Overview and a Reappraisal, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 403-424,
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